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March 8, 2026
Portfolio underwriting in 2026
In this episode, Robin Merttens moderates a panel with Tessa Wardle of QBE, Emily Stanford of Gallagher and Jonathan Spry of Envelop Risk, recorded live at the InsTech London event Some lead, others follow: Smart underwriting and broking strategies for 2026.
March 1, 2026
Rethinking Build vs Buy in insurance
In this episode, Matthew Grant sits down with Nicola Turner and Alex Ley, co-founders of Scrub AI, to explore one of the most pressing strategic questions facing insurers today: Build vs Buy in the age of generative AI.
February 26, 2026
From flood data to flood decisions: making intelligence actionable
Previsico and InsTech examine how outdated flood data creates blind spots in underwriting and operational decisions, and what advanced flood intelligence can deliver in practice. Featuring perspectives from Liberty Specialty Markets and Whitbread, this webinar explored how insurers and corporates can work together to make flood data actionable, from risk selection to real-time continuity planning.
February 22, 2026
Building the modern MGA
In this episode, Robin Merttens sits down with Frank Perkins, CEO and Co-founder of inari, to explore what it really takes to build and scale a modern MGA in 2026.
February 20, 2026
The golden age of underwriting and how to reach it
In this webinar, Matthew Twist of Concirrus, Piers Williams of Diesta and Lisa Rowe of Specialty MGA UK explored what a “golden age of underwriting” looks like on the ground.
February 17, 2026
Talent over travel: an offer of help if your employer is not supporting your career development
A special deal if you are struggling to get approval to attend Exponential Risk 26
February 15, 2026
How automation is shaping the future of claims in the Lloyd’s and London market
In this episode, we bring you a live panel from InsTech’s May event at CodeNode, exploring how automation is reshaping claims in the Lloyd’s and London market — and why the belief that specialty is too complex to automate no longer stands.
February 8, 2026
Automated underwriting: a pioneer’s perspective
Featuring perspectives from Marek Shafer of Vave, Tom Squires of AEGIS London and Jonathan Spry of Envelop Risk, this episode explores three early movers in automated underwriting sharing hard-earned lessons from building digital underwriting propositions that have survived real market cycles.
February 2, 2026
Catastrophe modelling gaps exposed by 2025’s natural disasters
Insured losses from natural catastrophes surpassed $100 billion for the sixth consecutive year in 2025. However, the absence of peak-zone hurricane landfalls offers a window to address critical gaps in catastrophe models. Claire Souch, independent consultant gathered four senior practitioners to examine what the year's events reveal about modelling assumptions and operational readiness.
February 1, 2026
AI, insurance software & the future of policy admin
In this episode, Liselotte Munk, CEO of Fadata, joins Robin Merttens to unpack how artificial intelligence is reshaping the software layer of insurance.
January 25, 2026
Creating a new kind of assurance & insurance framework for AI-related risks
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Tobi Schneider, Sector Engagement Lead for Financial Services & FinTech at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, to unpack one of the most ambitious research initiatives currently shaping the future of AI risk in insurance.
January 23, 2026
Europe exposed: Modelling, markets and the next generation of cat risk
This webinar brought together leading voices in risk modelling, insurance markets and policy development to examine how Europe can better anticipate, quantify and manage these growing risks.
January 22, 2026
The coastline is moving: Is your model keeping up?
Storm surge remains one of the hardest perils to underwrite with confidence. In this webinar hosted with Ocean Ledger, who focus on the underlying coastal drivers of storm surge, and KatRisk, we explored how you can use up-to-date standardised, scalable data inputs alongside established models to reduce uncertainty and improve risk selection.
January 18, 2026
Building a bootstrapped exit with Matthew Grant
This week we bring you an episode of Bootstrap Confidential featuring InsTech’s very own CEO, Matthew Grant, who joined Charles Green in the latter half of 2025 to reflect on the eight-year journey of building InsTech.
January 11, 2026
Bringing the joy back to underwriting
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Andy Yeoman, CEO of Concirrus, to unpack how a key player in marine insurance tech has reinvented itself as a core platform provider for the specialty market, and what that transformation says about where the industry is heading.
January 4, 2026
Showing the world how to revolutionise modelling
Matthew Grant is joined by David Wood, Managing Director at JBA Risk Management, and Jochen Papenbrock, Head of Financial Technology (EMEA) at NVIDIA, to explore how accelerated computing is unlocking new ways to simulate and manage flood risk.
December 28, 2025
Where is the industry today? – a view from the C-suite
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Dr Thomas Kuhnt (HDI Global SE), Ed Ackerman (Qover) and Vincent De Ponthaud (AXA) for a rare C-suite perspective on Agentic AI — what it is, how it's being deployed and why senior leaders are walking a tightrope between bold innovation and operational risk.
December 21, 2025
How insurers can better evaluate cat models in a multi-vendor world
In this episode, Claire Souch is joined by Tom Philp, James Lay and Stephen Martin for a timely discussion on the future of catastrophe model evaluation, and why it's no longer enough to simply trust what’s in the black box.
December 14, 2025
The rise of niche model vendors
In this episode, Brian Owens is joined by Dana Foley, Joss Matthewman and Olivia Sloan to explore the growing influence of specialist model vendors in catastrophe risk modelling and why they’re anything but “niche”.
